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You cannot have TRY/JPY butterflies that low with TRY/USD flies that high, it didn’t make any sense at all
London-based FX options trader
The problem is the MTF rules are crafted quite generally, and I think there can be some ambiguity
Steven Burrows, senior associate at law firm Fieldfisher
What the IASB indicated in that October Libor paper isn’t what we’ve done in practice today at all
Jessica Taurae, partner at PwC
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As funding stresses grew in mid-March, investors liquidated bond holdings in a dash for cash. As a result, asset swap spreads jumped significantly. For instance, the asset swap spread on JP Morgan’s 4.62% bond maturing in May 2021 jumped from 14.37bp on January 17 to a peak of 607bp on March 20, before ending the quarter at 123bp
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